#7531, Subversion, and $Id$

Hello tom,

Hi, one of my clients thinks it's a good idea to put a 'protected
static final String REVISION = "$Id$' declaration in each Java class.
It wouldn't really bother me if I wouldn't recognize a significant
slowdown while building the project in IDEA. I activated compilation
in the background, and I can see lots of 'Search for REVISION'
messages in the status bar that stick there way too long. It looks
like IDEA analyzes each of them individually. I wonder what IDEA is
doing here!?!?

It searches for classes that depend on the constant. To avoid this, just
change the constant declaration to private.

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Dmitry Jemerov
Development Lead
JetBrains, Inc.
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Thanks, Dmitry. That makes sense.